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Concerns over infecting others play a greater role in people s willingness to be vaccinated in sparsely populated areas than dense urban ones, according to newly published findings in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (
PNAS) of the United States.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania examined people s behavior getting a flu vaccine as well as their future intentions to be vaccinated against the flu and COVID-19.
Given that they encounter more people and have a greater risk of transmitting disease, it might seem that people in urban environments would be more highly motivated to vaccinate because of prosocial concerns - to protect others. But that is not what the research found.
Leading Suicide Prevention Orgs Ask the 11th Circuit to Rehear Florida Conversion Therapy Case
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The Trevor Project, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and American Association of Suicidology partnered in an amicus curiae brief to emphasize the need for municipalities to address the strong association between conversion therapy and increased suicide risk.
LGBTQ youth who have undergone conversion therapy are more than twice as likely to report having attempted suicide as those who did not. NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 21, 2020 Today, The Trevor Project, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) united to ask the entire 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the case of Otto v. City of Boca Raton (No. 19-10604). On November 20, 2020, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit ruled in a split opinion with a powerful dissent to strike d
New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month. In 1947.
Children being vaccinated for smallpox at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1947.Credit.The New York Times
By James J. Florio and Ouisie Shapiro
Dec. 20, 2020
In April 1947, New York City’s health commissioner, Israel Weinstein, had been on the job 10 months. He was a child on the Lower East Side when a smallpox outbreak brought the city to its knees in the early 1900s, killing 720 New Yorkers in a two-year period.
Most New Yorkers had been inoculated against smallpox. They’d been told the inoculation would protect them for life but there was no guarantee. In some cases, the vaccine didn’t take. In others, the immunity wore off.
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ThyBlackMan.com) It is hard to find a woman that wouldn’t agree with the notion that holding their baby after giving birth is undoubtedly the best feeling in the world. All the pain and tears take a backseat as soon as the mother holds the baby in her hands. Unfortunately, not all women get to experience this moment. Call it fate or whatever you like. Many
women die while giving birth, while some lose their babies. Losing a baby after nursing it inside her body for almost 9 months is unfathomable. It is a pain that’s too great to describe in words. It is hard to imagine that something like this is still possible given the advancement in medical science. Yet, it is a sad reality.
How can the world allocate COVID-19 vaccines fairly? It’s an ethical question many Penn experts are contemplating. One fact is certain, they say: Distribution must not exacerbate disparities and inequities in health care. On Dec. 11, the FDA granted an Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, with similar authorization for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine coming a week later. Frontline health care workers across the United States, including at the hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, have received their first doses. Similar scenes are playing out in countries around the world. (Image: Dan Burke)
SARS-CoV-2 emerged with a bang, appearing out of nowhere and spreading with lightning speed. It affects the body in ways similar to other respiratory illnesses, yet also differently. It forced countries to take drastic actions mask-wearing, social distancing, shutting down econ